New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers
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New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers
Homeopathy -- Materia medica and therapeutics
No symptom has been recorded unless experienced by two provers. When
experienced by two provers, and not often repeated, the symptom is
recorded in common type. When often repeated in two provings is found in
italics. When often repeated in three provings, or found in four or
more, the symptoms appear in black type.
MIND.--=Inability to study or fix the attention on one's work.=
_Confusion of mind._ _Apathy._ Irritability.
HEAD.--=A full or throbbing sensation in head.= =A dull heavy headache
mostly in the forehead and temples.= Sharp shooting pain in the head.
Pain in the occiput. Headache relieved in the open air. Headache
relieved by eating. Headache aggravated by motion.
EYES.--_Aching in the eyeballs._ Eyeballs painful to touch. Eyeballs
feel too large.
FACE.--Flushed.
MOUTH.--_Bad taste_; _sour_; _bitter_.
THROAT.--Sensation of lump in throat which could not be swallowed.
STOMACH.--=Nausea.= =Sour eructions.= _Poor appetite._ Vomiting of sour
ingesta, hiccoughs, pain and distress in stomach.
ABDOMEN.--=Gas in bowels.= _Colicky pain in abdomen._ _Fullness or
distension of abdomen._ _Uneasiness in abdomen._ Pain in the abdomen.
STOOLS.--=Diarrhoea.= _Light colored._ Stools preceded by colicky pain
in abdomen.
URINARY ORGANS.--=Quantity of urine diminished. Biliary salts increased.=
Frequent micturition but quantity small.
CHEST.--Pain in chest.
HEART AND PULSE.--Pulse rate irregular.
BACK.--Pain in back.
UPPER EXTREMITIES.--_Sharp stinging pains._ Aching.
LOWER EXTREMITIES.--=Weakness.= =Aching.= _Uneasiness._
SLEEP.--=Restless.= =Unrefreshing.= _Disturbed._
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.--=Restlessness.= =Tired weak feeling.= _Uneasiness._
_Languor._
The remedy seems most suitable to persons of a nervo-bilious
temperament. All the symptoms seem to be aggravated by work or
excitement and ameliorated by sleep.
SISYRINCHIUM.
NAT. ORD., Iridaceæ.
COMMON NAME, Blue-eyed grass.
PREPARATION.--The fresh root is macerated in twice its weight of
alcohol.
(Dr. W. U. Reed, of Northmanchester, Ind., contributed
the following in 1892 to the _Hom. Recorder_, concerning
this little known remedy. _Sisyrinchium_ was one of the
old "Thompsonians." From what Dr. Reed says of it the
remedy must be a very powerful one and worthy of full
investigation.)
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